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September 16, 2010 | Program Result
Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and System Strategies aimed to spur health care organizations to use a chronic care model to recognize and treat depression, and to develop financial and other incentives to support the use of the model.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors of this study created a checklist that evaluates the social stigma of depression among Latino patients the study occurred at two large outpatient primary care clinics in Los Angeles.
November 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study created the Chicago Adolescent Depression Risk Assessment, designed to help primary care physicians foresee depression in teens one year in advance, enabling appropriate intervention with kids even mildly at risk and potentially heading off development of the disorder.
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between depression and perceived communication quality between patients and doctors. Interactions between physicians and patients are an important component of health care quality, and little is known about whether depression influences patients' perceptions of communication quality.
February 26, 2000 | Journal Article
The effectiveness of two programs to improve the treatment of acute depression in primary care.
September 26, 2005 | Journal Article
Previous research shows that black Americans more often receive mental health services from a primary care physician than from a mental health specialist. This study assessed whether ethnicity was related to the diagnosis and treatment of depression ...
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Program designed to increase the use of effective treatment models in primary care settings for patients with depression.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article examines several screening tools for depression among patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease.
November 26, 2008 | Journal Article
The strong association between depression and cardiovascular events has long been identified but not understood. The Heart & Soul Study reveals the link is largely explained by behavioral factors, and in particular physical inactivity.
November 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The Heart and Soul Study considers the psychosocial factors and health outcomes in patients with coronary disease. Depressive symptoms have been associated with an increased risk of cardiac events in patients with heart disease. The goal of this stu ...